Bristol Athletic Club - News, results, fixtures, gallery, links from local amateur group.
Great Western Runners - Membership details, news, events, fixtures, history and results from local club.
Sole Sisters - Women's running group based in North Bristol which offers support to beginners as well as more experienced runners: profile, diary, FAQs, contact information.
Town and Country Harriers - A multi-terrain running club which meets weekly in Bristol and area: runs list, results archive, contact details, message board, links.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Athletics It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Athletics
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Athletics "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Athletics
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Athletics A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Athletics
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Athletics "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Athletics
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Athletics "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Athletics
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Athletics The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Athletics
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Athletics I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Athletics
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Athletics To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Athletics
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Athletics Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Athletics
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Athletics Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Athletics
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Athletics "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Athletics
